I'm the Culinary God

The lottery was simple: just draw a card from a box covered with red paper, with the prize written on it.

But this year the prizes were not many, and most colleagues drew the fourth prize, which was reportedly a health gift package valued at 399 yuan, including products like electric toothbrushes and water flossers from miscellaneous brands.

No one won the first prize, and only one employee won the second prize, which was the latest model phone.

Qi Panpan walked to the lottery box, and under the host’s guidance, reached her hand into the box. She initially intended to grab one randomly, but a sudden thought popped into her mind to draw one from the very bottom.

She reached her hand to the bottom, just about to pull a card, but felt a card stuck to the bottom of the box.

Huh? Is this stuck underneath?

Qi Panpan used her fingernail to scrape it and pulled the card out from the box.

She planned to take it out to see what it was and draw another if necessary, but when she withdrew her hand from the box, she saw three big characters printed on it:

"First Prize!"

Below was a line of small characters:

"A high-end laptop computer worth 23,333 yuan."

Woohoo!

She actually won it!

A high-end laptop worth over twenty thousand, having worked for so many years, she had never used such an expensive computer, she might as well give it to Bald Qiang, anyway, she didn’t need it.

She wanted to win the computer today to give Qiang a New Year’s gift.

As for previously threatening Qiang to buy it, it was intended to hand it to him and give it back anyway.

Who would’ve thought... hahaha, she managed to fleece the company’s wool, and it felt damn good!

"Congratulations to Manager Qi for winning the first prize, a high-end laptop worth 23,333 yuan. Amazing, amazing, Manager Qi truly deserves to be the head of the technical department; even her lottery skills are impressive."

The host’s words fired up the atmosphere, everyone had initially thought there was something fishy behind this year-end draw, but they didn’t expect the first prize to be won by Manager Qi, who always loves to go against the company.

Then there’s no problem; this year’s lottery draw was definitely fair.

Not everyone was cheering though, like the vice president who organized this year’s event, his face turning livid. This laptop was carefully selected as a New Year gift for his son, never expecting Qi Panpan to hijack it.

He had glued it very securely; how did she draw it?

The vice president couldn’t figure it out.

But it wasn’t over yet; after Qi Panpan returned to her seat with the laptop, she sent a message to the internal group of the technical department:

"Touch the bottom of the box a bit more during the draw, there are cards stuck at the bottom, someone might be up to something shady, let’s smoothly hijack it."

After sending it, Qi Panpan sighed lightly.

In a company where even the year-end lottery is played with trickery, the future seems bleak.

She figured they might as well discuss it later as a group and resign together, the salary the company offers is not worth everyone risking life and limb for.

After Qi Panpan’s draw, it was the turn of the technical department’s employees.

Everyone tried feeling around the bottom of the box, and indeed won the second prize, which was a new phone worth ten thousand.

After the technical department finished their draw, the company’s employees discovered that this usually silent department actually won one first prize, three second prizes, and six third prizes.

The other departments mostly won the fourth prize, and they didn’t win any.

Initially, when designing the lottery, the leadership wanted to create a program that randomly selected employee numbers, but the vice president in charge of the event feared that the technical department might secretly set a backdoor for their numbers, so they used this traditional method.

Originally thinking it would allow their people to have a good year’s end, who knew the big prizes would still be swept up by the technical department.

Are these people relatives of the God of Wealth?

"Panpan sis, your luck is amazing, can I take a look?"

"No, this is for your brother-in-law, see it after he opens it."

Lanlan said with a hint of jealousy:

"Had I known you treat your boyfriend so well, I would’ve pursued you back then."

"Get lost, I don’t swing that way!"

At Lin Xu’s home, everyone had almost finished eating, each with a bulging belly.

The Blood Duck was delicious and went well with rice, and even Han Shuzhen, who claimed not to eat staple food, ate two bowls of rice today.

As for Shen Jiayue, Zeng Xiaoqi, and others, they lay on the sofa, looking stuffed.

"The Blood Duck is just so delicious, never thought it would taste this good."

"We have to eat it again in a few days, it’s perfect with rice."

Brother Qiang and Yue Liyue helped Lin Xu tidy up the kitchen and then said their goodbyes.

One was preparing to go back to start a livestream, and the other to pick up the girlfriend who just won a big prize.

Lin Xu tidied up the kitchen, set up the filming equipment, with Zeng Xiaoqi and Chen Yan helping with the shoot, and prepared to record a video on Soy Sauce Meat.

He laid all the necessary meat on the workbench, then placed the soy sauce and other ingredients to be used, officially starting the recording.

Today both of them appeared on camera together, Lin Xu briefly introduced the Soy Sauce Meat, then began the preparation.

He took a large soup pot, poured two 5-liter bottles of Light Soy Sauce into the pot, followed by a whole bottle of Dark Soy Sauce, a big bowl of Crystal Sugar, a small jar of Rice Wine, and spices like Star Anise, bay leaves, cinnamon, and fennel.

After all was in, he brought it to a boil over high heat, stirred to help the sugar dissolve, then turned off the heat, allowing the marinade to cool naturally.

Taking advantage of this time, Lin Xu started cleaning the pork.

Flipping the pork delivered by the driver, with the skin side up, he picked up a small knife and started scraping the Pork Skin.